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Lean Manufacturing Best
Practices Mini-Assessment
Great companies strive to reduce waste, increase flexibility, and decrease lead times while still providing their customers with high-quality products by employing a variety of lean manufacturing techniques. How does your company compare against the best? Take our mini-assessment to find out!

Our company's sales per employee (total sales divided by number of full time employees) =

The number of times our inventory turns over per year =

Our percent of on-time deliveries =

Our product passes quality checks the first time through of the time.

The time to change-over our key process measured from last good piece to first good piece of next product =

The percentage of unplanned downtime of key equipment =

The percentage of product lines that are set up to manufacture product with minimal WIP between steps =

Our workstations contain posted and updated standard work procedures:

Our operators are cross-trained:

Reduction in throughput time during the last year on our key product(s) =

Our scrap rate =

We have visual controls (signs, pictures, procedures, etc.) in place at of our workstations.

The number of suggestions implemented per employee per year =

Dedicated continuous improvement (Kaizen) events held per year =

The percentage of on-time delivery from our major suppliers =

Equipment currently covered by a Total Productive Maintenance program =

The percent of product families for which the value stream has been mapped =

The percent of plant areas that have a sustainable program for cleaning, sorting, and removing unused items/equipment and organizing remaining items using the 5S Methodology =

Our workforce is organized in empowered teams to address performance, quality, or safety issues:

Team meetings are held:

Your Score:

What Your Score Means

Assessment courtesy of our NIST/MEP partner, Virginia's A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP).